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Medical students’ reported barriers to training at a Rural Clinical School
Author(s) -
Jones Graeme I.,
DeWitt Dawn E.,
Elliott Susan L.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
australian journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.48
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1584
pISSN - 1038-5282
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2005.00716.x
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , medical education , medical school , medicine , psychology , nursing , geography , meteorology
Objective: To understand and address students’ concerns about attending one of the new Commonwealth‐funded Rural Clinical Schools.Design: Analysis of students’ reported reasons for clinical school selection from 2003 to 2004.Setting: The School of Medicine and the Rural Clinical School, University of Melbourne.Participants: Data were obtained from de‐identified preference documents submitted by the medical student cohort assigned to the University of Melbourne clinical schools to begin in July, 2004.Results: Thirteen categories of student concerns (social) were identified from written student preference documents.Conclusions: Evaluation of the students’ concerns about social dislocation if they were assigned to a rural clinical school has provided important information about perceived barriers to rural training. These issues must be systematically addressed at the school, university and community level.